Took a quick look at the episode, and Hiromi said that Shin's father might be her real father. :twitch:

Things start to get out of control
- Aiko confesses in front of Nobuse of whom she actually love,which made Nobuse shocked...although in the beginning of the story,it was revealed that Aiko accepted Nobuse's love confession (but with the the help from Shinichiro)
- First date for Hiromi with Jun.She doesn't seem so happy with it since it was Shinichiro who started the whole thing.
- Shinichiro seems regret with his decision to let Jun go out with Hiromi.He was wondering whether that decision was the best for her or not.
- Best of all : the relation between Hiromi and Shinichiro.

Shinichiro : What was my mother kept from me?About that "conversation"..what issit all about?
Hiromi : ....I wonder if i should tell you about it...
Hiromi : *The key conversation!!I can't hear it properly..it sounds like "watashino hou ga,tanjoubi osoi kara..shinichiro kun ga missingword"*
Shinichiro : ......What kind of joke is that...
Hiromi : Really....it looks like it was a joke.
Hiromi : My grandmother once told me...your father is probably my real father too.
Hiromi : Icchata *Not sure how to translate this one..it sounds like "ops..i spilled out the secret"*

Gonna watch it for the 2nd time again..hopefully can get to listen to the key conversation in this episode.

missing word = oniisan (brother, older)
the two might be blood related (said by Hiromi)...same father, different mothers...

I'm guessing that this isn't true based on the mother's reaction...surprised that Hiromi still remembered...maybe she said that initially to "bully" hiromi... /shrug

Since I was born later... that would make you (older) brother.

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Itchatta, "I said it." (Itchatta has sort of an 'oops' tone, although in this case she clearly meant to say it. Basically making it a juxtaposition of how it is usually said and how it was actually said.)

Noe doesn't get to do much in this episode, but Aiko, Miyokichi, Shinichirou, and Hiromi get a lot of time!

Well, finally explained the Miyokichi/Aiko relationship.
Seems Miyokichi went "love at first sight" at Aiko and thanks to Shinichirou, confessed to her. Then she accepted his confession. So they are dating, technically...
-Miyokichi is sharper than I thought though...
But... Boy, did he have a shock when Aiko told him she bought a sweater that Shinichirou liked.
He was like (O_O)-->( O_ O)-->(O _O)-->(O__O)

Hiromi gets pulled around through the episode...
Jun brings her to a movie and tells her that Shinichirou is dating Noe, shocking Hiromi.
Shinichirou's mom continues to harass Hiromi.
Shinichirou's density annoys Hiromi.
And finally, she spilled it.
She might be Shinichirou's dad's daughter. Of course, she said "might be" so it isn't 100% sure. I guess Shinichirou's dad slept with Hiromi's mom at least once, which brought up the possibility. Of course, so far, without a certainty, there's a chance Hiromi is not...
Shinichirou got a big shock too, like Miyokichi...

-Noe pulled off Shinichirou's belt! >_<
You know, why would they show the end with Noe there...?
Unless they want to show us how "odd" she is... Because i was kind of disturbed by the fact she put his belt on herself...

Jun... gets minus points for smiling because he surprised Hiromi. That felt like he had ill intentions...


Preview: "Say it properly, write it here"; Hiromi and Noe fighting because of Shinichirou (seems Noe wants Hiromi to apologize for hurting Shinichirou), Jun questioning Shinichirou, probably about Aiko, Aiko...

Awesome...

Wow. I knew the bombs would start dropping this ep. Next ep looks like angry people dealing with the repercussions and each other.

Not sure how to take the news of Shin's father possibly being Hiromi's, but from a romance angle, I'm guessing that isn't the case. Besides, we haven't heard from Shin's father yet.

Anyway its like what you say...with Aiko finally reveal her true feelings in front of Nobuse (pity Nobuse for it) and Hiromi,after knowing that Shin and Noe were going out together,also after revealing the secret between them..

But more importantly the preview on the final part which really made me anticipate for the next episode


Things went out of control between Noe and Hiromi.Go go Hiromi :heh:

Probably she did that for fun,since there's no way for her to return the belt back to Shin anyway...

Anyway her ass-dance and the aburamushi song ends the episode very well :heh: :heh:

This series is just testing my mood for sure, I don't think I've had this feeling since SD aired and that means laughing at someone's misfortune because he/she obviously brought it onto himself.

Whilst my opinion of hiromi has been improving ever so slightly since ep 3 (or was it 4), shin has already begun to deteriorate, and this episode was just the ticket for me to throw most of my sympathy away for him. He did bring his own angst onto himself.

So! The blackmail backfires on him and number 4 ends up asking hiromi out. She accepts and shin overheards in the classroom, throwing him into one of his silly little tantrums YET again. I swear whenever the guy frowns or show any sort of facial expression, he reminds me of makoto...don't ask why...

Well as he continues to beat himself up, Noe is still cheerful as ever (much to his annoyance) and hoe get rid of her, he even sacrificed his belt (LOL).

Anyway...another drama scene where hiromi finds out that shin has been pulling strings behind her back by telling number 4 that hiromi likes her. And again he fails to realise the look of disgust on her face (shin! you are such a good boy -____-).

Final drama scene was just LAWL!

So I guess most of us saw this coming from a mile away but now shin knows that he might be hiromi's brother. But the way the scene was played out was just epix, all thanks to the awesome BGM (YAY!). Hiromi "let it slip" as she said but we know that it was intentional to clear up everything. But on the other hand I actually support her even if she thinks that it was the worse thing to do in the world. Shin needed a reality check and this was just the ticket.

On aiko's case it is a little more complex. So it turns out that shin did flex his good boy brain and arranged for nobu and aiko to meet.

Pitty relationships don't work is my motto and this is another one of those cases.

But maybe not so much as pitty than to make shin happy seen as he was so intent on aiko going out with nobu...as far as to call him a good boy [insert lawl].

But her feelings are showing through...yep...

The only innocent character left in this series is noe...please don't follow them XD

he is someone who is well versed in setting up other relationship, intended or unintended. :p

Shin and Hiromi turn out to be brother and sister, then this really a fail since it was so predictable. And really not interesting. I would rather have a relationship between in romantic way. I just hope that is not the case since it was so predictable.

And I think there not sibling's because they revealed it so early on. There are 7 episodes left. If any of you see TW drama I could say this is like the drama The X family where the guy and girl thought they were sibling's when in fact they were not.

It's a gut geeling but revealing that this early says it's not true. For being a romance and all sighns were there form a begining then anything other and Hiromi and Shin together in a romantic way is a complete upset (like the Giants in the Super Bowl) and shock.

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But more importantly the preview on the final part which really made me anticipate for the next episode


Things went out of control between Noe and Hiromi.Go go Hiromi :heh:

Screw Hiromi, Go Noe, finish her off my bundle of joy!!!

Shin needs someone more like Noe, someone who is straight foward, fun, energetic, weird and not all emo. Go Noe!!! show Hiromi who is boss!!
I don't see Shin ending with Noe as a big shocker, maybe aiko but not Noe.

and, I dont really like hiromi. so it doesnt matter, imo shin and hiromi are screwing themself around lol

actually this whole drama could be simpler and ended sooner if it is in the reality:(, but again, that's why it is a drama, if not why should we watch it ha?:D

Why would it be fail if it had a predictable element? There's plenty of predictability in this show, and in everyshow, that doesn't mean its going to fail because of it. And yes, it was predictable... maybe because that was how the story was set up? I think that's the entire point of foreshadowing. If you look at the characters facial expression and words, there's even foreshadowing about just how valid that statement is and may all come back to Shin's mother. But wait! Foreshadowing would be too predictable, I guess this show fails. The only show that would have no predictability is one with little white boxes moving, no words, no facial expressions, nothing. Then it'd be unpredictable.

Anyway, back on topic, this episode was very good. I'm curious to see where it goes from here... and the BGM is just amazing.

I personally loved the episode. The production team is doing a superb job with the dramatic ups and downs, and this show has shot up my list of current favorites.